During a lifetime of Bible study and teaching, Betty Banaszak found most fascinating the period of the “divided kingdom,” the four centuries that followed the division of Israel and Judah in 975 B.C.
That’s the subject of Banaszak’s new, self-published book, “The Divided Kingdom of Israel and Judah.”
After generations of conflict with its southern neighbor, Israel, the nation to the north, effectively disappeared with the domination of the Assyrians about 200 years after the…

